All Screen articles in 11 February 2008 – Page 5
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Lake Tahoe
Dir: Fernando Eimbcke. Mexico. 2008. 81 mins .At first, Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke's second film appears to be another droll, quirky movie about teenagers which remind us that sometimes, when nothing happens, everything happens. Rather like his debut, Duck Season, which garnered festival action, critical plaudits and theatrical release in ...
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Lake Tahoe
Dir: Fernando Eimbcke. Mexico. 2008. 81 mins .At first, Mexican director Fernando Eimbcke's second film appears to be another droll, quirky movie about teenagers which remind us that sometimes, when nothing happens, everything happens. Rather like his debut, Duck Season, which garnered festival action, critical plaudits and theatrical release in ...
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Writer's Guild reaches deal with AMPTP
The Writers Guild Of America (WGA) announced last night that it had finally reached a tentative deal with the studios to end its 14-week strike.WGA West and East presidents Patric Verrone and Michael Winship contacted members in the small hours of Saturday morning to alert them.The agreement with the AMPTP ...
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Belgrade Industry Meetings unveils lineup of 12 projects for 2008 event
New feature projects by Albania's Gjergi Xhuvani, Croatia's Rajko Grlic and Israel's Yaky Yosha are among 12 projects selected for this year's B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings which will be held for the third time between February 29 and March 2.The complete lineup of projects are:Euro-Asian section:Frenzy, Emin AlperBulut Film, TurkeyInfiltration, ...
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Arclight Cashes In On Roger Donaldson's Bank Job
Gary Hamilton's Arclight Films has closed a raft of sales ahead of theEFM screening of Roger Donaldson's heist movie The Bank Job starringJason Statham.Deals have closed in Japan (Movie-Eye Entertainment); Germany,Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland (Atlas); Spain (New World Films); Scandinavia (Nordisk); Portugal (Castello Lopes); Canada (Maple Pictures); Greece and ...
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Blood, Country, Control take London critics awards
Ahead of Sunday's BAFTA awards, Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country For Old Men was named film of the year by the London Critics Circle on Friday night.Paul Thomas Anderson was named best director for There Will Be Blood, which is playing here in competition.Daniel Day-Lewis for There Will Be ...
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Maximum takes on international rights to Trouble The Water
Toronto's Maximum Films International has acquired international rights to last month's Sundance Grand Jury Prize documentary winner Trouble The Water.Tia Lessin and Carl Deal's film follows aspiring rapper Kim and her husband as they try to navigate a path to survival in New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane ...
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NonStop slides on Frozen River for Sweden
Voracious Swedish distributor NonStop Entertainment has snapped up SundanceGrand Jury winner Frozen River.NonStop will be releasing the film in in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway,Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.Filmed in sub-zero weather in upstate New York, Frozen River is CourtneyHunt's directorial debut. The film is set in a real-life smuggling zone ...
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Eros takes international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's Sarkar Raaj
Indian powerhouse Eros International has acquired international rights to Ram Gopal Varma's upcoming Sarkar Raaj. Starring the hot family trio of Amitabh Bachchan, Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Rai, the film is a sequel to Varma's award-winning Sarkar, which delves into the links between politicians and the underworld in modern-day Mumbai. ...
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Lorianne Hall takes development post at UK's Ipso Facto
Lorianne Hall been appointed head of development and creative producer at UK-based Ipso Facto Films, one of the producers of last year's Berlin hit Irina Palm.Hall, a veteran of the US and Europe, previously served as head of development and creative producer for Ireland's Samson Films, literary agent at The ...
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iDream looks into The Voyeurs by Dasgupta
London and Mumbai-based iDream Independent Pictures has picked up worldwide rights, excluding India, to The Voyeurs directed by veteran Bengali filmmaker Buddhadeb Dasgupta.The film follows a young man who falls in love with the girl next door, and looks at whether our obsession with surveillance has really made the world ...
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ContentFilm strikes UK, German deals for The Killing Room
ContentFilm International has pre-sold Jonathan Liebesman's The Killing Room to the UK (Momentum), Germany (Square One), Portugal (Lusomundo), Greece (Spentzos), The Middle East (Gulf), Brazil (Paris Filmes), Romania (Media Pro), The West Indies (Caribbean Film Services) and Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia (Continental).The high-concept suspense thriller is Liebesman's follow-up to The ...
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The Weinstein Company, Showbox hot for Chocolate
Thai actioner Chocolate - which opened at the top of the Thai box office this week - has been gobbled up by several international distributors including The Weinstein Company which has taken North American rights. Produced and sold by Sahamongkolfilm International, the picture has also been sold to Showbox Media ...
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Endeavor to represent Russia's Central Partnership
Central Partnership Group has signed an agreement with the Endeavor talent agency to represent the Group's interests in North America. Under the agreement, Endeavor will act as sales agent for rights to Central Partnership movies and will organize joint production projects with major US studios.Should Endeavor clients film in Russia, ...
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Celluloid Dreams takes on von Trotta's mediaeval story Vision
Celluloid Dreams has announced its acquisition and co-production partnership on German auteur Margarethe von Trotta's new feature, Vision.Barbara Sukowa will take the leading role in the film, based on the life ofmediaeval mystic Hildegard von Bingen.A mystic, healer and composer, von Bingen was one of the most famous womenof mediaeval ...
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Roissy continues Caramel sales with Taiwan deal with Joint
Nadine Labaki's Caramel is continuing to entice buyers. The Lebanesedirector-star's crowd pleaser, which premiered in the Cannes Quinzaine last year, has sold steadily throughout the year.Here at the EFM, French company Roissy Films has announced another deal on the title. Joint Entertainment has now taken the film for Taiwan.Caramel is ...
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UK's Protagonist unveils slate, plans Cannes official sales launch
Protagonist Pictures, the new sales company formed by UK heavyweights Ingenious, Film 4 and Vertigo, has announced the first titles on its sales slate. The mix of films includes new projects from directors Nicolas Winding Refn, Rupert Wyatt, Alexis Dos Santos, Vito Rocco and Tom Shankland.Ex-Metrodome and Universal executive Ben ...
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Rainer Grupe named VP of film at Canada's Entertainment One
Rainer Grupe has been named vice president of filmed entertainment at Canadian distributor Entertainment One. The executive reports directly to president Patrice Theroux and will play a key role in the company's international expansion plans while overseeing content strategy in the UK, North America and Benelux. Grupe most ...
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Sidetrack takes on world rights to Corman doc King Of The B's
Sidetrack Films has acquired worldwide rights to Alex Stapleton's documentary King Of The B's: The Independent Life Of Roger Corman.The New York-based company's Jared Moshe and Richard Lim will serve as executive producers along with Josh Levin of Gallant Films.Stapleton will chronicle Corman's prolific film-making career, a legendary run that ...
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Ewald's Epic Pictures takes on Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer
Patrick Ewald's Epic Pictures has picked up international rights to Jon Knautz' Slamdance hit Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer starring Robert Englund and Trevor Matthews.Ewald said he was already in advanced talks with a UK distributor on the tale of a young man whose professor unwittingly causes him to confront an ...